Hijacking Catastrophe: "Things Related and Not" (4 of 10)

http://www.HIJACKINGCATASTROPHE.org

"By helping us understand how fear is being actively cultivated and manipulated by the current administration, Hijacking Catastrophe stands to become an explosive and empowering information weapon in this decisive year in U.S. history."
Naomi Klein | Author, No Logo

"The Media Education Foundation has been carrying out vitally important work on major issues of the day, in a highly meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding, work that is particularly crucial in advance of the coming election, which may well cast a long shadow over the country's future."
Noam Chomsky | Professor of Linguistics, MIT


"The next Presidential election will be a watershed mark in our history and the urgency of producing and distributing materials that show exactly what is at stake has never been higher. Hijacking Catastrophe will be a vital tool in the campaign to rescue American democracy from its internal enemies. It will enrage and empower as it enlightens and explains."
Robert McChesney | Author, Rich Media, Poor Democracy


�What it really comes down to is this: Are the American voters going to sit still for this? Are we going to treat our democracy like some sort of spectator sport, like watching the Super Bowl, or are we going to ask a little more of ourselves this time? Are we going to explore the Bush Administration�s claims? Are we going to look at the details of what this administration has actually done?�
William Hartung | Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute


The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved for information. The result is that we have had little detailed debate about the radical turn US policy has taken since 9/11.


Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.


The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force.


At the same time, the documentary argues that the Bush Administration has sold this radical and controversial plan for aggressive American military intervention by deliberately manipulating intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American people after 9/11.


Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with more than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how the Bush Administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to link the anxieties generated by 9/11 to a pre-existing foreign policy agenda that included a preemptive war on Iraq.


Joining Kwiatkowski in a wide-ranging, accessible, and ultimately empowering analysis of American foreign policy, media manipulation, and their global and domestic implications, are former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams, author Norman Mailer, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, defense policy analyst William Hartung, author Chalmers Johnson, and Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff (Ret.).


At its core, the film places the deceptions of the Bush Administration within the larger frame of questions seldom posed in the mainstream: What, exactly, is the agenda that drove the administration's pre-war deceptions? How is 9/11 being used to sell this agenda? And what are the stakes for America, Americans, and the world if this agenda succeeds in being fully implemented during a second Bush term?

INTERVIEWS INCLUDE
Tariq Ali | Benjamin Barber | Medea Benjamin | Noam Chomsky | Kevin Danaher | Mark Danner | Shadia Drury | Michael Dyson | Daniel Ellsberg | Michael Franti | Stan Goff | William Hartung
Robert Jensen | Chalmers Johnson | Jackson Katz | Michael T. Klare | Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Ret.) | Norman Mailer | Zia Mian | Mark Crispin Miller | Scott Ritter | Vandana Shiva | Norman Solomon | Greg Speeter | Fernando Suarez del Solar | Immanuel Wallerstein | Jody Williams | Max Wolff

Directed by Sut Jhally & Jeremy Earp

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• MEF
• Iran
• Bush
• War
• Neocons
• Neoconservatives
• Iraq
• Empire
• Propaganda
• 9/11
• WMD
• EFP
• oil
• media
• Rumsfeld
• Cheney

[FreedomIsPopularLLC]

The followers that still maintain loyalty to "W" and his neo-cons have lost the vision of America's founders. Patriotism isn't blind loyalty to big government, empire nor pre-emptive wars. No, patriotism is loyalty to the Constitution. Off the top of my head, I think it's Article I section VIII, "only Congress has the power to Declare War". Treason is disloyalty to the Constitution. I predict if Ron Paul isn't elected, there will be no America in ten years...

[JixMa]

It's simply amazing just what's going on and gets reported on, yet no one seems to lift a finger to stop this or change the course the U.S. has undertaken.

It's like we're all just watching it happen before our eyes, in slow-motion, this transformation from democratic rule to fascist rule and we're immobilized with fear from governmental reprisals if we speak out against the government.

Man! This must be just how pre-Nazi Germany was gradually transformed into the fascist state it became.

[skb0rzn]

They stand there and knowingly LIE to you, they knew all along they were false in their reports and they still lied about it. THEY KNEW there were no WND's and knew that innocent men and women were going to die and it would bring instability to the USA - world relations and they did it anyway for... $ and to attack ISRAELS enemies.

[skb0rzn]

@FreedomIsPopularLLC I agree with you 110%

[mjm3767]

Are country has done this for years.Look at W.W.2 we gave the Nazis hell for killing Jews but in are own country we killed African and Native Americans.

[danpt2000]

How easily public perception can be manipulated. Even in So-called "Liberal Democracies".

[mooners40]

the anthrax was proven to come from military labs.

Another false flag

[GeorgiaPatriot41]

Guess who gave Hitler his money back then! What and who caused a Hitler to rise up in Germany? What were the circumstances? It's called history books! You can check them out at the library. I can teach a monkey to wave a flag!

Can't remember why I put France in there but I'm sure it was in context to another comment I was replying to.

Would you still curse me like that if we were face to face? Are you that ignorant and belligerent?

[JstNEarthling]

First of all what the hell does France's position in our politics have to do with WMDs and Saddam? The whole fucking world would be speaking either German, Nippon, or Russian if not for our boys in uniform and a just cause.you fuck! Patriot my ass, a true patriot asks questions and does not trust government, is only dutiful towards it.

[danpt2000]

Even when videos such as this are posted on the internet, the NeoCons will never stand trial. These people are too well connnected, too well sheltered from prosecution. They are literally above the law.

[MAGNETGRUNT]

JixMa - amazing just what's going on and gets reported on, yet no one seems to lift a finger to stop this or change the course the U.S. has undertaken.

It's like we're all just watching it happen before our eyes, in slow-motion, this transformation from democratic rule to fascist rule and we're immobilized with fear from governmental reprisals if we speak out against the government.

Man! This must be just how pre-Nazi Germany was gradually transformed into the fascist state it became.

[GeorgiaPatriot41]

Turn your T.V. off and read a book. WMD'S Weren't fake. We have the receipts where we sold them to Sadaam in the early 80's. We gave tacit approval when he gassed the Kurds.By the way, you'd have a British accent right now if where not for France's aid in the late 1700's. How soon we forget that part. Give back to those who deserve it? Your lost dude